(The Light Race Situation) The Warrior and Hamel High School

Time flowed and flowed, and Park Gyeong-cheol was in his third year of high school, four months in.

Class 2-A remained Class 3-A.

Park Gyeong-cheol mastered Aura, which others took years to achieve, to the point of being able to unleash it, shocking everyone. He also competed with Andre for first and second place in Class A during martial arts classes.

Although Park Gyeong-cheol’s grades in the three humanities subjects and magic theory weren’t great, martial prowess was the most important thing in the fantasy world, so no one ignored the powerful Park Gyeong-cheol.

Park Gyeong-cheol’s relationships with women became quite complicated.

Park Gyeong-cheol frequented noble club members’ gatherings and high-society exchange meetings and parties.

Women approached Park Gyeong-cheol first, and he had several one-night stands, with the women ranging from their early twenties to late thirties.

Park Gyeong-cheol even had sex with his exclusive maids, Katie and Amy, and even had a threesome.

Park Gyeong-cheol promised that if his status rose higher, he would keep Katie and Amy as concubines forever.

Excluding Kim Na-yeon, Park Gyeong-cheol’s official girlfriend was now his third since coming to the fantasy world, the Young Lady Engracia of the Baron family, a Hamel High School senior one year older than Park Gyeong-cheol.

After graduating, Young Lady Engracia became an executive at a large corporation owned by her family in Bilan City, providing Park Gyeong-cheol with a lot of financial help.

Park Gyeong-cheol’s only regret was not having sex with Serena.

No matter how much Park Gyeong-cheol pursued her, Serena’s heart showed no wavering.

Park Gyeong-cheol eventually gave up.

Even without Serena, Park Gyeong-cheol’s life on the Elia Continent was a fantasy life he had only dreamed of and seen in web novels.

—

Kim Na-yeon’s situation was the opposite of Park Gyeong-cheol’s.

For the first month, rumors that Kim Na-yeon hated and despised Park Gyeong-cheol spread throughout the school.

Originally, the Hamel Empire government intended to raise Kim Na-yeon as a support for the Hero, but since Kim Na-yeon denied her role, she was not worth investing in.

Kim Na-yeon showed talent and growth speed surpassing ordinary people in light-attribute defense magic, but she was just an excellent magician, not the Hero himself.

The Hamel Empire government did not take away Kim Na-yeon’s baronetcy, but it confiscated the house and maids it had lent her and cut off her allowance and tuition.

Kim Na-yeon became a beggar overnight, had nowhere to go, and was about to be expelled from school.

Having lost everything, Kim Na-yeon entered the dark magic clubroom, crying, to say her last goodbyes.

At that moment, the club members threw a surprise party, encouraging Kim Na-yeon to cheer up and telling her about the plan they had made to help her.

The dark magic club members would raise money for Kim Na-yeon’s tuition and living expenses so she could live in the school dormitory.

Furthermore, Marquis Iosap, Serena’s father, had decided to accept Kim Na-yeon as a knight when she graduated and allow her to maintain her baronetcy.

Kim Na-yeon sobbed with emotion, crying out her thanks.

,Everyone, thank you! Eueong-eong! I will never forget your kindness! Euaaang-aang!”

The dark magic club members warmly embraced the sobbing Kim Na-yeon from all sides.

Kim Na-yeon not only received help but also studied and trained hard at Hamel High School to prove her worth.

By the middle of her third year, Kim Na-yeon had become the best in light defense magic at Hamel High School, able to summon and move multiple shields of light.

Kim Na-yeon became close to Serena and eventually had sex and started dating each other.

Kim Na-yeon didn’t know it, but she had bisexual tendencies.

—-

At Hamel High School, each class had to go on a field training exercise in the first semester of their third year.

The field training exercise was a mission where the homeroom teacher and the entire class entered the ‘Man-Eating Forest’ or the ‘Screaming Forest,’ which were full of monsters, and survived for a month.

Class 3-A, which included Park Gyeong-cheol and Kim Na-yeon, was assigned to enter the ‘Man-Eating Forest,’ which was known for its many tentacles.

A shocking article had circulated a year ago that the Gale Kingdom and the Mermaid Sea had been eaten by monsters, but Hamel High School was pushing ahead with the field training exercise for the following reasons:

1) The field training exercise is a very important event at Hamel High School.

2) The Dark Army has not moved at all for a year.

3) The Man-Eating Forest is very far from the Gale Kingdom and is unlikely to be related to the Dark Army.

4) The wild tentacles of the Man-Eating Forest are less powerful than the military-grade tentacles of the Gale Kingdom, and no problems have occurred in the forest so far.

The fact that people’s feelings about the article from a year ago had faded also played a part.

Right now, Class A was standing on a field outside the Man-Eating Forest, wearing their personal gear and carrying luggage filled with food, looking at the dense trees inside the forest.

Teacher Palma clapped her hands to get their attention.

“Everyone~ Don’t worry, Teacher Omar and I are here. If you follow our instructions well, everyone will be safe~”

Unmarried Teacher Omar was very interested in Teacher Palma and volunteered to come along.

Teacher Omar, carrying both Teacher Palma’s and his own luggage, shouted confidently with a hearty face.

“Hahaha! Teacher Palma. Just trust me!”

Teacher Omar took the lead and guided Class A to the campsite inside the Man-Eating Forest.

As they entered the forest, they could hear the sounds of insects and animals.

Park Gyeong-cheol, feeling something ominous, asked Andre, who was walking next to him.

“This is my first time entering a forest like this. Is it okay?”

Andre smirked coolly.

“I’ve been in here a few times with the knights when I was young and caught tentacles several times. It’s safe unless you go really deep.”

Norbert nudged Park Gyeong-cheol and joked.

“Hey~ Tentacles are nothing to you. What are you scared of?”

Park Gyeong-cheol retorted.

“When did I say I was scared? I just asked if it was okay.”

Ivana chuckled and said.

“Why are you guys grumbling about just entering a forest?”

Ivana was a magical engineer, so a 3m-tall metal golem was carrying her luggage from behind.

Andre defended Park Gyeong-cheol.

“It’s Park Gyeong-cheol’s first time entering a forest. It’s normal to be nervous at first. Park Gyeong-cheol is strong, so it’ll be nothing once he gets used to it.”

Park Gyeong-cheol entered the forest, chatting with his friends.

—

Kim Na-yeon, on the other hand, was walking with Serena, Sina, Constantina, and Despina.

Kim Na-yeon entered the forest and said with a pale face.

“Eueueue. It’s creepy.”

Serena stroked Kim Na-yeon’s hair and said.

“Na-yeon, don’t worry. And since you and Despina are defense mages, you have to protect me, Sina, and Constantina, who are attack mages, if monsters appear.”

“That’s true, but it’s more of a primal fear.”

Despina encouraged her.

“Na-yeon! Fighting! You can do it!”

“I’ll try my best.”

“I like that attitude!”

Sina shouted cutely.

“Kyaak! Kyaak! Despina encouraging you is also cool!”

—

After two hours of walking, Class A arrived at a campsite with several buildings in a circular field without trees.

Teacher Palma stopped the students and explained loudly.

“This is the campsite! You will move in teams of four to five people. For the first week, you will stay in the dormitory building and eat the food you brought. For the remaining three weeks, you will pitch tents outside and get food from the forest. The tent equipment is in the warehouse, so ask Teacher Omar how to use it. I will tell you about the food.”

Teacher Omar, with his arms crossed, shouted confidently.

“Hahaha! I’ve been an adventurer for a long time, so I’m a field expert! Ask me anything!”

Teacher Palma added.

“And there are professional books about the forest and camping in the dormitory building, so anyone can read them as much as they want.”

Park Gyeong-cheol teamed up with his best friends Andre, Ivana, and Norbert.

Kim Na-yeon teamed up with Serena, Sina, Constantina, and Despina.

For the first week, Class A slept in the dormitory and learned how to find edible plants and animals in the forest and how to use various items needed for camping, guided by Teacher Palma and Teacher Omar.

A few tentacles appeared along the way, but Teacher Omar burst them all with his punches and shouted confidently.

“There are no dangerous tentacles in this area, and the number of individuals is small! And don’t worry, Teacher Palma and I are here. Hahaha!”

A week later, the Class A students pitched one giant tent per team, slept in the tents, had to find food on their own in the forest, and had to fight if they encountered tentacles.

In the second week, Park Gyeong-cheol’s team and Kim Na-yeon’s team went deep into the forest to find food and happened to run into each other.

Park Gyeong-cheol and Kim Na-yeon avoided each other’s eyes, and the other team members also felt awkward, so they were about to pass by quietly.

Suddenly, the ground rumbled, and Andre quickly shouted.

“Monster horde! Everyone gather!”

As they had learned at school, the students formed a formation with the ranged classes in the center: Ivana (magical engineer), Norbert (archer), Serena (dark mage), Constantina (dark mage), and Sina (elemental mage).

On the outside, the melee fighters Park Gyeong-cheol (swordsman), Andre (swordsman), and Ivana’s golem, and the defense mages Kim Na-yeon (light mage) and Despina (light mage) stood guard on all sides.

Whether they were on good terms or not was not an important issue when monsters were coming.

Ten minutes after the ground began to shake, countless tentacle monsters, from small to large, swarmed in.

The female students screamed.

“Kyaaaaaaak!”

Serena shouted fiercely.

“Everyone! Get a grip! Kim Na-yeon! Despina! Deploy shields of light!”

When the tentacles were almost upon them, Kim Na-yeon and Despina regained their senses and cast their magic, creating a giant shield of light in front of them, and the charging tentacles collided with it, exploding with a loud kuaaaang.

“Kkeueueueuk!”

“Hold on!”

Serena shouted and cast a mental curse on the tentacle horde, causing two tentacles to attack the others.

Park Gyeong-cheol and Andre unleashed Aura, slicing several charging tentacles in half.

Ivana took a cylinder out of her pocket and shot it into the sky, saying.

“It’s an emergency! I’ll call the teachers!”

A red sphere rose from the cylinder into the sky with a buuwoong, then exploded with a bang, scattering red light and emitting a piiiing sound throughout the forest.

The children were surrounded by tentacles and fought to survive.

Park Gyeong-cheol and Andre knocked away the incoming tentacle legs with their swords and unleashed Aura to slice the tentacles.

Ivana’s golem’s hands turned into chainsaws, spinning with a wiiiing and cutting off the tentacle legs.

Kim Na-yeon and Despina summoned several shields of light and moved them around the group to block additional attacks.

Serena cast dark curses, causing three tentacles to go berserk and attack the tentacles next to them.

Constantina fired dark spears, Sina fired fire spears, and Norbert fired Aura arrows.

Park Gyeong-cheol and Andre could have broken through these tentacles, but if they left, the ranged students would be in danger, so they had to maintain the formation and block the tentacles.

Sina desperately shouted as she incinerated a tentacle falling from a tree with Inferno.

“How long has it been? Where are the teachers?!”

It felt like they had been fighting for dozens of minutes already, but there was almost no sign of the teachers arriving.

Ivana dodged a tentacle leg trying to wrap around the golem’s arm, pulled the golem’s arm back, and swung it, cutting off the tentacle leg, and shouted.

“It’s been 30 minutes already! Something must have happened at the campsite too!”

The defense mages Kim Na-yeon and Despina were suffering because their mana was being consumed in real-time to continuously maintain the shields of light and block the impacts.

Despina shouted painfully.

“Kkeueueuk! I can’t do it anymore!”

Norbert shouted urgently.

“We have to hold on! We’ll all die if it collapses!”

“Eueueue! Euaaaaa!”

The shield of light that Despina was maintaining in front of her shattered with a clang due to a tentacle’s body slam, and she vomited blood from mana backlash.

“Kulkeok! Kulkeok!”

Serena shouted in anguish.

“Despina! No!”

The moment three tentacles stretched out towards Despina’s legs, Norbert’s arrow split into ten and pierced the three tentacles.

But then another tentacle leg quickly crawled along the ground and wrapped around Despina’s ankle.

The moment Despina’s eyes widened in terror, she was dragged into the horde of tentacles with a shuwoong, screaming.

“Kyaaaaaaak! Everyone! Help me!”

Kim Na-yeon shouted urgently.

“Despina!”

Kim Na-yeon was about to run, but Sina grabbed Kim Na-yeon’s wrist and shouted.

“We have to protect this place! We’ll all die if you leave!”

“Keueuk! You bad monsters!”

Kim Na-yeon believed that the dark race should not be discriminated against, but she didn’t like the tentacles that had taken her friend.

Kim Na-yeon eventually had to create a shield of light, including Despina’s share.

“Kkeueueue! I can do it!”

The corpses of tentacles piled up around the children, but as many as had died came, so the situation did not look good.

Ivana’s golem creaked from excessive operation, and when its leg was entangled and dragged into the tentacle horde and destroyed, Ivana screamed sadly.

“No! My golem!”

Now only Park Gyeong-cheol, Andre, and Kim Na-yeon were left in melee, and it was not enough for three people to cover all sides.

Suddenly, a tentacle leg stretched out from above a tree and wrapped around Ivana’s neck, and Ivana panicked.

“Huh?!”

Shuwoooong!

“Kyaaaaaaak!”

Ivana screamed as her neck was entangled and thrown into the tentacle horde, disappearing soon after.

Andre shouted.

“Ivana! You bastards! Kkeuaaaa!”

Andre shouted.

“We’re all going to die like this! We have to break through to the campsite!”

The moment the defense weakened, Serena, Sina, and Norbert were all entangled by legs and screamed as they were dragged into the tentacle horde, and Park Gyeong-cheol also swung his sword and cursed.

“Euaaaa! Shit! Shit!”

After fighting for about 10 more minutes, an energy shockwave flew from far away, tearing the tentacles apart in a straight line.

Kukagagagang Kieeeek!

Andre shouted in a hopeful voice.

“It’s Teacher Omar’s Aura Punch!”

Indeed, Teacher Omar was running towards them with Teacher Palma, shouting.

“You tentacles! You’re all dead!”

Teacher Omar quickly shot forward, leaving afterimages, reached the tentacle horde, and punched the air with his right fist, and with a paaahang sound, a shockwave spread, and the tentacles exploded with a pababang.

After that, dozens of Teacher Palma’s dark spears fell from the sky, skewering the tentacles like skewers, and the tentacles began to scream and run away all at once.

“Kieeee! Save the tentacles~!”

Teacher Palma asked urgently.

“Everyone! Are you okay?”